Ecotextile News

Texhibition Istanbul returns on September 10–12, 2025, celebrating textile innovation, craftsmanship, and future-forward design. 🌍 Sustainability isn’t about what’s next—it’s about what remains. 📍 Save the date and stay tuned for what’s ahead! texhibitionist.com #AD

🎙️NEW ECOTEXTILETALKS PODCAST EPISODE🎙️ Listen as our host Philip Berman and cotton expert Simon Ferrigno, explore the question: Are environmentalists undermining cotton? Listen to this Ecotextile Talks episode right here for free👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025082159182/…

📣The Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) has launched a UK-wide campaign urging businesses to donate surplus stock to help people and the planet📣 #ADEcotextileNewsPartner ecotextile.com/2025081859111/…

🚨Breaking- SHEIN‘s overall CO2 #emissions rose by more than 23% last year, according to the company’s newly published 2024 Sustainability and Social Impact Report. Read more on this here👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025061657546/…

🚨The International Labour Organization is to initiate action against #Myanmar for failure to comply with conventions on freedom of association and #forced labour. The decision, which was made during the 113th session of the ILO conference, held in Geneva, #Switzerland on 5th June, will see the organisation invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution, its strongest measure for #enforcement. @ilo Read more about this here on our site👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025060957416/…

🚨Exclusive: Leading figures in the #fashion and #textile industry give their take on the likely impact of President #Trump’s sweeping #trade #tariffs🚨 ecotextile.com/2025051956827/…

💡Although physical stores still account for almost 80% of #retail purchases globally, the #fashion e-commerce market is projected to more than double by 2030 to reach €1.5 trillion. But despite its potential, e-commerce has a problem with #returns. It is often reported that return rates exceed 50%, presenting companies with significant #financial and #logistical #challenges. Read our contributor Stephen Frost's feature which explores the industry's fashion returns problem👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025051256701/…

🚨New #Mexico’s state assembly is poised to pass new legislation that will prohibit the manufacture and sale of #garments and #textiles that contain #PFAS (perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances)🚨 PFAS, also known as ‘forever’ chemicals due to their durability in the #environment, are used to impart #oil, stain and water repellence, as well as fire retardancy to #textiles and #clothing, but have also been linked with major health and #environmental #risks. ecotextile.com/2025040255765/…

💡Members of the #European Parliament have today agreed to fast track a decision on controversial proposals to delay flagship corporate #sustainability and due diligence legislation💡 By a margin of 427 votes to 221, with 14 abstentions, MEPS backed plans to hold a vote on the so-called ‘stop the clock’ proposals to halt imminent legislative changes on Thursday, 3rd April. Read the full story over on our site👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025040155779/…

💡Online fashion retailer ASOS.com has joined the global RE100 initiative of companies committed to using 100% #renewable #electricity💡 It follows ASOS’ commitment to achieving 100% renewable electricity across all ASOS-operated offices and fulfilment centres by 2027, announced as part of its refreshed #Fashion with Integrity #strategy in late 2024. More👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025032855677/…

AAFA, @USfashion, & others explain why we're asking the U.S. Secretary of Labor to reinstate the Bureau of International Labor Affairs to improve #LaborRights - most recently alerting to concerns regarding the Uzbekistan cotton industry: ow.ly/P8g650VoWsq @Ecotextile #ILAB

📍#Women migrant workers in #Leicester, a city in the heartland of the #UK’s garment manufacturing sector, are facing #gender-based #violence both at work and in the home, partly as a result of #fashion brands purchasing practices, a new report suggests. Read more here👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025031855387/…

We're here and waiting to see you at Performance Days in the media lounge in hall C5 with our Cotton Guide and of course Ecotextile News magazine- come and pick one up before they're gone!

AD- The much-anticipated Textiles Recycling Expo is premiering this year, on 4-5th June in Brussels, Belgium, with free registration now open for prospective attendees. The event is positioned as a central hub for innovation, collaboration and education, curated for key professionals within the textiles recycling industry. Read the full story here👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025030354979/…

#AD ✨ Fashion’s Next Wave Starts Here! ✨ The countdown is on for TEXHIBITION Istanbul! 🚀 From March 5-7, 2025, Istanbul Expo Center becomes the epicenter of textile innovation—where the future of fabrics 🧶, yarns 🧵, denim 👖, and accessories ✂️ takes shape for Spring/Summer 2026. Join global industry leaders, uncover the season’s must-have materials, and redefine the next chapter of fashion. 🔗 Be part of the movement. Let’s create the trends before they happen! texhibitionist.com/en #TexhibitionIstanbul #WWDFashion #SS26 #FutureofTextiles #FabricForward #TrendForecast #DenimRevolution @texhibitionistanbul

💡Ingka Group, the franchise owner of the majority of IKEA stores, has published its ‘#NetZero Transition Plan’ in which it spells out how it intends to meet its pledge to half its overall #greenhouse gas #emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero by 2050. Read more here👇🏼 ecotextile.com/2025021754619/…

🚨EU funding boost for India textiles sector🚨 The #EuropeanUnion and #India’s Ministry of Textiles have together launched seven new #projects aimed at strengthening the country’s #textile and handicraft industry. With €9.5 million in EU #funding, the initiatives span the textile #supplychain and aim to foster inclusive growth, resource #efficiency and #environmental issues across the sector along with driving #sustainable livelihoods, and womens’s economic #empowerment. ecotextile.com/2025021754609/…